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Marty Golden says gay marriage would destroy America...unless they hold the receptions at his family's catering hall.
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But not before one final, unexpected collaboration.
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Milocrorze: A Love Story. No, we have no idea either.
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This is just a great interview.
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Hit by postal truck exiting the mail sorting plant on West 29th Street.
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In which, against all odds, the words "organic, sustainable pickles" do indeed appear.
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Photos of Tweedy and co., as well as Thurston Moore, Woody Guthrie's granddaughter, and more.
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One of the most important figures in the city's craft beer scene died from injuries sustained in a bike accident last week.
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This profile of a devout young Muslim in Bay Ridge screens again Friday at Rooftop Films.
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A staggering bill for an 80-day prison stay with still no formal charges.
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Road trip, you guys. Road trip.
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The videographer stood by as The Greatest philosophized, gladhandled and trained in the run-up to the Rumble in the Jungle.
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- by Mike Conklin
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Tags: Film, indieScreen, Animation Block Party, Northside, Northside Festival, 2011, Joe Hume, Ben Richardson, Emily Carmichael, Mari Jaye Blanchard, Matthew Lee, Robert Bohn
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Both put up large-scale pieces a few blocks apart this week.
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On the compulsion to keep queerness closeted for fear of workplace discrimination.
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This week's column includes a Steve Zahn cameo, because Everything Goes Better With Zahn.
- by Jesse Hassenger
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Tags: Film, Your Weekend at the Movies, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Michael Bay, Terri, Monte Carlo, Selena Gomez, Larry Crowne, Tom Hanks, The Perfect Host, Steve Zahn!
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An update on the semi-released Chinese artist-activist, and an outrageous comparison to his closest stateside equivalent.
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BAM's "Marilyn!" series kicks off tonight, and Wilder's masterpiece screens on the glorious Fourth.
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Bike art is healthier and better for the environment than regular art.
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A "who's who" of the graffiti and street art scene on a few blocks in Queens.
- by Benjamin Sutton
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Tags: Art, NYC art, Murals, Public art, Street art, Astoria, Ad Hoc Art, Veng, Roa, Sweet Toof, Ellis G., Lady Pink, Chris Stain, Alice Mizrachi, El Kamino, Slideshow
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You're so much better than these kids. (Unless, no, wait, you are these kids!)
- by Sydney Brownstone
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Tags: Film, Music, Arcade Fire, Spike Jonze, Short films, The Suburbs, Cheetos, Suburbs, Urbanism, James Howard Kunstler, Video
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Turns out you probably shouldn't have gone swimming over the weekend.
- by Henry Stewart
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Tags: News, coney island, brighton beach, manhattan beach, kingsborough, kiddie beach, gerritsen beach, pollution, run-off, overflow, sewage, bacteria
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The 26-year-old behind your favorite subway tag campaign was arrested last week.
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*spits out sunflower seeds* Where you pretty boys headin'?
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Sad news about one of the central figures in NYC's beer scene.
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- by Mike Conklin
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Tags: Film, Northside, Northside Festival, 2011, Union Docs, Joe Hume, Shorts Block, Jen and Crystal Campbell, Joel Fendelman, Nathan Punway, Nellie Kluz, Xander Robin, I <3 Boy, Jessica Yatrofsky
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A take-no-prisoners musical comedy from Malaysia, concerning the compromises everyone makes.
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Alan Gilbert triumphs again with this colorful Leos Janacek opera The Cunning Little Vixen.
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Sutton claims the Autobots are descended from Noah, but Stewart says they're just hybrids.
- by Benjamin Sutton and Henry Stewart
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Tags: Film, Blockbluster, Transformers, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Hasbro, Michael Bay, Shia LaBeouf, Autobots, Decepticons, Optimus Prime, Megatron, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Chicago
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And if we see any of you 11211 kids over on our side we'll beat you up and steal your stamp money.
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Grandpa? Maybe you could come over and read it again to me tomorrow?
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Jay: 1, Kanye: 0.
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Street art expert and gallery director Kathy Grayson says her former boss's show belongs in New York.
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Help a hometown hero make a permanent playable building.
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His 45-years-on restaging of the drag performer's Warhol screen test plays tomorrow night in a queer video program.
- by Mark Asch
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Tags: Art, Film, Dirty Looks, Experimental Film, Video Art, Queer Film, Underground Film, Conrad Ventur, Mario Montez, Andy Warhol, Warhol Screen Tests, Jack Smith, Charles Ludlam, Drag
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She tells us about her history as a filmmaker immersed in the worlds of NYC artists-for-life.
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You'd watch a George Plimpton biodoc, wouldn't you?
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You think your pit stains are bad?
- by Jonny Diamond
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Tags: News, summer, summer in the city, riots, plagues, violence, murder, tragedy, loss, failure, Slideshow
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Elise! Who knew?
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How many millions will go into this Depression-set musical about bank-robbers?
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But enough people? Maybe...
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Plus a barely post-Brideshead Revisited Jeremy Irons speaking word-perfect Polish.
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If you are still, very still, you can sense the Mandy Moore harmonies.
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Kurosawa's first color film is about misery and its illusions, and the feel is almost otherworldly.
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Are you guys really still going to defend this shit?
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With lots of sausage, obviously.
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They're still so much better than R.E.M.
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Is this news? It is, right?
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It should go to referendum. The Catholic social networks need to be protected!
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Why has the department store turned on us?
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The Black Keys are the only real men out there. And sometimes Arcade Fire, but they're still kinda sappy. Head, meet desk.
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Hayley Mills finds the Son of God in a barn in this beloved, rarely screened British film.
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He says we're supportive! And easy to get along with!
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- by Mike Conklin
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Tags: Special Events, Northside Festival, 2011, Music, williamsburg, williamsburg walks, walks, summer, event, weekend, activities, music, food, yoga, drums, kids, children, families, fun, bar, drinking, liquor, beer, ski ball, heineken, Bushmills, irish whisky, con-ed, con edison, mo hawk, faux hawk, ugly art room, art, scrabble, sidewalk, steve madden, east river ferry, food, concert, crowd, Cody Swanson, Aol, a.o.l., art, painting, wall, mural, colorful, carnitas, fred, fred water, water
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But only if you have an iPad, or an iPhone 4 that you hold just so.
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If you like to design shit, you should do this.
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Recently reunited standouts of 90s indie rock come to town and, to their credit, just don't fit in.
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"I don't often consider what my work is 'doing., It's more like a friend I run behind."
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Goose genocides in other parks around the city are still being secretly scheduled.
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It wasn't Andrea Bocelli's fault—it's the terrorists!
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"Better slow down, or the skeletons'll come getcha!"
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A neighborhood so ridiculous it's impossible to tell where reality ends.
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How about more police? What if they were mounted police?
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While the lane-hating plaintiffs figure out how to prove something false.
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Lou Reed totally wants to marry Edgar Allan Poe.
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"Nothing's blown up or caught on fire, so that's good."
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One of the prettier façades in Dumbo just got much prettier.
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Just a really masterful coup by self-marketer extraordinaire Jack White!
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Give them some nice white walls and the kids will forget about painting on private property.
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Here's what Brooklyn's new Off Broadway theater will look like.
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Or maybe his conscience just needs hush money. Yegshmesh!
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When director interviews teeter on the brink of psychodrama.
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No word yet on whether indiewire will repost old mockups of the original 1996 site design. We can hope!
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Study of working musicians and gentrification in downtown Austin plays at Rooftop on Friday.
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It's called "Neil Armstrong" and it is totally dreamy.
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Featuring watercolor graffiti, a giant squirrel sculpture, and a couple of crochet bicycles.
- by Benjamin Sutton
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Tags: Art, Olek, Sirikul Pattachote, Tara de la Garza, Eric Diel, Patrick Porter, Leon Reid IV, Keith Schweitzer, Street art, NYC art, Graffiti, 320 Studios
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It's better than going to L.A., but not as good as having the exhibition come here.
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An attempted robbery near Prospect Park reminds a city of some grim history.
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Was it only ever a matter of time? Sigh.
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Andrea Peyser writes about how things happening to other people, and geese, affect her.
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Sutton and Stewart drive Pixar's moneymaker into a ditch.
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Besus strikes again. With good works.
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Pinkerton will fight for this movie's reputation, often literally.
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Happy Fourth of July, everyone!
- by Paul D'Agostino
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Mmm, history as window dressing, yum!
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They seem to break as many laws as they enforce.
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A new report finds that road construction creates more jobs when it involves building bike lanes.
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Ditmas's own Tully stars as a prodigal sports hustler in his deeply odd Southern Gothic, opening today.
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Well, that kinda depends how you measure attendance records. Let me explain.
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"If youve been published in the New Yorker, we do not contact you. If you have an agent, we do not contact you."
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When people say "everybody hated that movie," what do they actually mean?
- by Jesse Hassenger
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Tags: Film, Blockbuster Franchises, Sequels, Apologies, Transformers, Michael Bay, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars Prequels, George Lucas, Box-Office Numbers, The Elusive Nature of Consensus
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The rent just got too damn higher.
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But only if you pretend Williamsburg includes Greenpoint (as the Brooklyn Paper does).
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Or, rather, forms vague programing partnership for arena-sized performing arts.
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State and federal lawmakers are trying.
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Dear Canadian New Yorkers, have a beauty of a day.
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Borough's bearded vastly underrepresented on user-generated upside-down-facial-hair-photos site.
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For the Catholics, the battle might be over. But not the war.
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Oh, Beyonc, stop doing this.
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An early champion of Louise Bourgeois and Patti Smith who'd become disillusioned with the New York art world.
- by Jennifer Hamblett
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Tags: Art, Robert Miller, Robert Miller Gallery, Chelsea, NYC art, Obit, Deaths, Georgia O’Keeffe, Calvin Klein, Patti Smith, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lee Krasner, Cheim & Read, Andy Warhol
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Thanks to some shitty record-keeping at a Bronx high school, nine students are not graduating as planned.
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Confirms via text message: "I'm out." Photos show safe return.
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Finally, you will have some idea where you are.
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Franco probably had an exam that day.
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Album Reviews
Sound Kapital was composed entirely on keyboards, rather than on Dan Boeckner's signature slashing guitars.
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The self-titled sophomore album by Justin Vernon's Bon Iver builds on the sparseness of his debut, to brilliant effect.
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Album Reviews
A Treasure is a surprisingly impressive collection of live material from one of Young's most baffling periods.
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Film Reviews
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop is a nicely classical roadshow doc about a man doing what he loves.
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Film Reviews
Azazel Jacobs's most recent feature has a sense of the oddity of high school life to barely distinguish a rote odd-duck-comes-of-age story.
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Features
On the displaced, detached, damaged loners played by Cristi Puiu in his new Aurora, and David Bowie in the newly revived The Man Who Fell to Earth.
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Film Reviews
In Bad Teacher, Cameron Diaz plays a bad teacher.
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Film Reviews
The stereotype-flaunting Names of Love inadvertently makes all the wrong cases.
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Film Reviews
This history of the Earth Liberation Front is vague and sentimental about radical activism.
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Film Reviews
A striking essay-film laments the lost paradise of rural Georgia.
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Film Reviews
Lyrical death in two Great White Northern imports: Ontario gothic Small Town Murder Songs and Montreal school-shooter Polytechnique.
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Bar Reviews
Fancy Mexican at the old MonkeyTown space misses the mark.
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Restaurant Reviews
Sometimes yogurt can be delicious.
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Features
The L Magazine's food writers dream-up their ideal Brooklyn five-course meal.
- by Cara Cannella, Kara Zuaro, Keith Wagstaff and Tom Sullivan
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Tags: Features, Food & Drink, Brooklyn food, Cara Cannella, Kara Zuaro, Keith Wagstaff, Tom Sullivan, menus, foodies, gastronomic fantasy
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In which we absolutely and totally settle the debate once and for all.
- by Tom Sullivan
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Tags: Features, Food & Drink, Brooklyn pizza, New York pizza, Difara, Totonno's, Toby's Public House, Grimaldi's, Sam's Restaurant, Motorino, Roberta's, Franny's, Paulie Gee's, L and B Spumoni Gardens, Luigi's, Best Pizza, impossibly subjective exercises in list-making
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A collaborative mural wrapped around Greenpoint's Fowler Arts Collective thrives off hybridity.
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Theater Reviews
Joseph Hendel's quirky experimental production of far-out one-act comedies by Ionesco and Pirandello—there's an app for that.
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Theater Reviews
Her performance in Michael Weller's new play Side Effects marks a long-awaited return to New York theater.
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Theater Reviews
Moisés Kaufman helms the New Group's staging of One Arm, about a fighter-turned-sex worker.
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Theater Reviews
AntiMatter Collective's zombie cowboy play Death Valley survives longer than necessary.
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Kate Christensen's new novel strives for a contemporary Brooklyn panorama, and ends up with cardboard cutouts.
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The Indie List
Allegory and ephemerality swirl about stunningly in Jesse Ball's new meta-novel.
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Sex With the Natural Redhead
On the danger level of human semen!
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Art Fag City
Art Blog Art Blog is a new temporary gallery in Chelsea. (It's also an art blog.)
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Ask A Cabbie
Obviously not just for horny teens anymore.
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Local
Reading in order to save reading, a novel idea.
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Local
When the novelty wears off (and it's no longer free), will there be enough river commuters?
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Features
In this year's budget, the city's libraries once again faced down budget cuts proposed by rich politicians who have no idea what they mean to people.
